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Everyone knows Star Trek The Next Generation Season 1 is bad. But why? This video dives into the crucial character writing problem which hampered TNG's first year and how it was fixed later on.
00:00 Intro
00:35 Star Trek's Character Problem
04:40 Why TNG Season 1 is Bad
07:32 How TNG Improved
10:37 Conclusion
11:07 Sponsor
12:21 Outro
Nope. Seasons 1 and 2 were certainly the worst seasons of Star Trek, but they were also the LAST seasons of Star Trek. What came after that was not Star Trek.
shareI see the show as a product of it's times, the 80s.
At the time, there was a huge yuppie culture to be this bland Patrick Bateman person from American Psycho.
The original series had more logical acting. The people on the ship were totally alone facing extremely bizarre situations with a leader who led from the front. That's what leaders in ancient times did because if there was a fight they were going to lead it.
Meanwhile, the "middle manager" and "CEO" culture of the 80s admired people who were emotionless and removed from the situation. Next Gen had people in the same kinds of situations as the original series but they were bland and that made the show lack adventure for me.
I'm not sure if it was Next Gen but I recall a show where there was a thing that looked like a jewel on a ship but really it was the egg of a massive space creature. They got it off the ship just before it hatched and when it was in space the egg hatched into a massive space dragon, or whatever. The characters, who could have all died had it hatched on the ship were like....oh...wow.. and the show ended.
The show didn't have good writing and acting or the actors weren't allowed to act.
I also got turned off immediately that Pickard actively didn't like children. In the Star Trek universe you would likely be considered insane if you didn't like "children" as they are human beings and not some separate thing that is "children".
It all seemed like someone who didn't understand Star Trek wrote it.
The gemstone/egg was in the first season of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," when Vash had dumped Q and was trying to make it on her own by selling yet another stolen artifact without doing enough research into what it truly was. What was interesting about that episode, was seeing how Q was having a hard time letting her go, he'd had so much fun going on adventures with her, but she had gotten sick of him and didn't want to hang out with him anymore.
Most Trekkies who stuck it out can agree that "Next Generation" improved from Season 3 onward.
Believe it or not, they actually redeemed the "Picard didn't like children" trope in a later episode, when the ship malfunctioned and he was stuck while doing a tour of the ship with three kids, and he ended up making them a part of his "crew" and working together to get out of the mess they were in. He softened a bit and realized kids were not completely useless, particularly when you're stuck with the gifted students on the ship.
You want trek shows written by someone who didn't understand "Star Trek," or even like it, pretty much all of Kurtzman Trek is like that.
Good job remembering the egg episode.
I watched all of Next Gen and there were good episode because I tend to like Star Trek even when it's not great. I just hated the blandness of many episodes.
I didn't think the acting/direction fit the setting.
Also, I like Patrick Stewart but hated Picard. The character would be a crazy person according to the culture of Star Trek. Also, the Riker character was supposed to be awesome but never did anything to show he was. Worf was like a simpleton and only Data was a consistently dynamic character but him and Work were like Spock stand ins.
Anyway, when the show finally went off I saw and interview with one of the lead people behind the show. He was an unpleasant and angry looking jewish guy with his hair dyed in rainbow colors. He said he didn't like the show because it didn't "reflect the holocaust" and I thought that was crazy.
Years later, we get some of the current shows and they are disliked for being negative and I believe that is the reason. You can't have a world where religion doesn't exist and the people running it belong to a tight religious group that no longer exists in the story...so tie to destroy it...lol.
TNG Season 1 was the show's "shakedown cruise". You're always bound to find some bloopers.
….because Gene Roddenberry was too involved.🙄 He had a utopian vision of the future where humans all got along because we all had replicators and enough stuff. So no wars, no fights, no disagreements among the crew.
Without conflict there is very little drama. The Enterprise might as well have been renamed The USS Good Ship Lollipop.
No matter how much money and stuff people have, human nature essentially does not change. The Great Bird of the Galaxy forgot that.
Anyway, there were some good episodes in the first two seasons!
It's not so bad. It's not even bad. It's actually quite good.
sharestill better than the new normal woke trek
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